{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-statutory-instruments-order-1999/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-statutory-instruments-order-1999/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1096",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Statutory Instruments) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-statutory-instruments-order-1999",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Lists of Scottish statutory instruments",
  "text": "(1) The Queen’s Printer shall from time to time cause to be published a list to be known as the “Scottish Statutory Instruments Issue List”, showing–\n(a) the number and short title of each Scottish statutory instrument which has been issued for the first time by, or under the authority of, the Queen’s Printer during the period to which that list relates; and\n(b) the date on which each such instrument was so issued.\n(2) In any legal proceedings, a copy of any list so published shall be received in evidence as a true copy and an entry therein shall be conclusive evidence of the date on which any Scottish statutory instrument was first issued by, or under the authority of, the Queen’s Printer.\n(3) In any proceedings against any person for an offence consisting of a contravention of any Scottish statutory instrument, it shall be a defence to prove that the instrument had not been issued by, or under the authority of, the Queen’s Printer at the date of the alleged contravention, unless it is proved that at that date reasonable steps had been taken for the purpose of bringing the purport of the instrument to the notice of the public, or of the persons likely to be affected by it, or of the person charged.\n(4) Except as otherwise expressly provided in paragraph (3), nothing in that paragraph shall affect any enactment or rule of law relating to the time at which any Scottish statutory instrument comes into force.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 8 applied (S.) (1.9.2009) by Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009 (asp 1), ss. 3(4), 5(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 8 in force at 6.5.1999 for specified purposes, see art. 1(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Art. 8 in force at 1.7.1999 in so far as not already in force, see art. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1096/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:29.066730+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}